Professor Fran Li received the Billonton Award and Prize Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Montreal, Canada.

For the sixth time in the last seven years and seventh time overall, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor for Power Grids Yilu Liu has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award.

This fall, new EECS Associate Professors Hongkai Yu and Ben Riggan will begin applying their electrical engineering expertise to major agricultural challenges.

Michela Taufer is the principal investigator on a $9 million project awarded by the National Science Foundation to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

Professor Jian Huang’s startup, VisualizAI, helps healthcare organizations build institutional intelligence around insurance billing, recovering revenue to better serve patients.

Phillip Graham leveraged the senior design project and his team’s expertise to achieve his dream of making the complex Japanese writing system easier to master.

Using software tools she helped create, Professor Michela Taufer enabled an AI tool to autonomously conduct a beamline experiment in New York in real time.

Assistant Professor Hector Santos-Villalobos is leading a team of researchers and students to help develop AI-driven performance analytics for the UT football team to try and reduce player injuries.

Emeritus Professor Jack Dongarra received the prestigious NEC Computer and Communications Prize for his pioneering work in high-performing scientific computing.

Gregory Peterson is named program director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research & Graduate Education Data Science & Engineering graduate program.